My favorite course I took in college was historical linguistics. But I was a linguistics major…

I do expect CS students to take a history of computing course.

Maybe it's interesting to linguistics majors but the rest of us tend to ignore typos when the meaning is clear from the context.

> My favorite course I took in college was historical linguistics.

And?

> I do expect CS students to take a history of computing course.

The overwhelming majority of them don't and seem to do just fine.